Neurosurgical management of frontal lobe epilepsy in children: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 206-216

  Vachhrajani, Shobhan ^a   De Ribaupierre, Sandrine ^a   Otsubo, Hiroshi ^a   Ochi, Ayako ^a   Weiss, Shelly K ^a   Donner, Elizabeth J ^a   Widjaja, Elysa ^a   Kerr, Elizabeth ^a   Smith, Mary Lou ^a   Drake, James ^a   Rutka, James T ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrocorticography; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Frontal lobe; Lesionectomy; Magnetoencephalography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865984790     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.6.PEDS11125     Document Type: Article

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